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Show STORMS OF THE WEEK RAISE HAVOC OVER COUNTY Winding up an unusually dry summer practically the whole of Emery county has been visited the past week with oceans of water and that, too, in the form of veritable torrents that xi roads and farms, and took out innumerable innumer-able canals, dams and bridges. Small showers were rather the order of the day until" Sunday and Monday, when the big storms came. Monday it rained all day, though it was only bad in sections. In the afternoon it literally poured down in n area not more than three miles square and just above and around the Wilberg reservoir, with the result that the pond dam gave way and the water stored there added to the stream that was already crossing the road and headed down through -he ff Ids of grain, alfalfa seed, corn and potatoes. Before the dam finally gave way tbere was a steady flow over the side of the reservoir for several hundred feet, and when the stream reached the wash below the road, it washed it out until it was many times the former size and still washed for several rods on either side of t ie main channel. The fish in the pond, with which the water was fairly alive, all went down with the water, the bi-s going down first with the clear water and not stopping stop-ping for anything. The suckers, however, how-ever, lingered all along the wash and on the banks, and the stream has been literally lined with men and boys, catching catch-ing the stranded fish with their hands. Many were found 14 to 18 inches long A few bass fry were to be seen in the brush on the banks where they had perished, but no large ones were found. The' reservoir covered an area of something like 120 acres, and has been the work of years on the part of Mr. Wilberg and his boys. It was one of the interesting pleasure spots of the county. Besides the huge tear in the reservoir, valuable pasture-land was ruined, and whole crops of wheat, oats, corn, potatoes and alfalfa seed made worthless, except for possible fodder. The loss will be at least $2000, besides the reservoir. The wooden bridge located belovv the reservoir and all others in the flat were taken out, and traffic oyer this main road made impassable, . necessitating going around by Lawrence, though this route was also bad on account of the soft condition of the road and the enlarging en-larging of the washes. The bridge between Castled lie and OrangeVille, located near the Logan home this side of the steel bridge, was also undermined and finally collapsed'. The Power plant also suffered again, forcing the poople of the two towns to be without lights part of Sunday night, all Monday night and parts of Tuesday night. |